Why did you remove it? Its a WP:VITAL article, its been in dispute for years. Giving it the widest possible coverage is useful and makes it much more likely to avoid having to go to arbitration. Besides its not as if there is anything else useful to post in its place. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:32, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ed1723:51, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Templates added to Ironman articles
I noticed that you added {{Refimprove}} templates to the various Ironman series articles, including 2011 Ironman 70.3 World Championship. Are you challenging the race results in the article or the other content? The reason I ask is because race results are not listed in one central location or WTC results database (like, for instance, ITU events) but instead in individual race website databases or news coverage of individual events. If this is the material you're challenging, you've requested upwards of 150 to 200 new individual inline citations on material I would personally do not consider contentious or likely to be challenged (but perhaps I'm mistaken on this last point). I'm looking to avoid mindless and tedious editing to correct this as I suspect there would be no other willing participants to do the work necessary to remove the templates. Thanks. BarkeepChat/$18:25, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
No I don't challenge the result on any of these pages, but someone other could do. The point is that they lack references. For example if an IP would changes names in one of the articles, than how would you know, that this is vandalism and not correcting wrong names. There is no need for inline citations, you can use the method for example on 2010–11 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup. Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs08:29, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
I would actually prefer to avoid that style of citation as it doesn't follow any manual of style for citations that I know of (but I might be wrong), is prone to link rot, and generally appears to reflect a lack of effort on the editors part in adding complete citations. Regardless, care to help me fix this error you've helped identify? BarkeepChat/$03:58, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Of course I'm willing to help. You just have to place the links of results somewhere (for example there, ordered by season). Oh and I agree with you about this citation style. It's not optimal, but at least every information is referenced and they could be converted to proper citations (if somebody really wants it). Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs07:32, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Cuetracker links removed
Hi, I provided a few links to statistics websites for snooker tournaments/players, and you removed them with reason 'not needed'. I wonder why this is, and what the difference is between my page (I own the website I posted), and the other pages that are listed in external links. My page offers a lot of statistics that the others do not, and the others actually contain broadly the same info.
Please let me know what I did wrong, and how I can help the community by providing this information. All the best, Ron (Visionaire87 (talk) 21:44, 5 September 2011 (UTC))
The problem with this external links on player articles is that: (1) If you want to add links to statistics of the current season, than you have to update them for every season. But the other external links are stable and don't need continually updating. (2) If you want add links to every season (I assume you will not stop adding dates from earlier to the website won't stop), would clutter the external links section of articles. There is also a conflict of interest for you and one could say you just added this links to promote your website. Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs07:28, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply. "(1) If you want to add links to statistics of the current season, than you have to update them for every season." What exactly do you mean by update for every season? I had linked to players results and statistics on the player wiki's and tournament/season stats on their wikis. If all results for the current season are logged I fail to see the stability issue you find. I also fail to see how this would be considered clutter, as you currently have links (going to WWWsnooker, WorldSnooker, ProSnookerBlog and GlobalSnooker) on several pages which show the same results as my page does, however mine does show a lot more statistics that the others do not. How do you then determine that mine is cluttering up the links, while it shows something more than the current ones there? The COI-issue I can see, however since I am not making any money from this site, and the whole reason I started it is to share information and make statistics accessible to everyone at no charge, I feel this would be very valuable to Wikipedia readers, and even from the short time the links were present could already see several wiki users clicking them (including yourself I believe based on location). I respect your opinion and decision, however I feel that I am actually offering a lot additional to the articles that I posted links in, something that would genuinely give people a source of more valuable information, which after all is what Wikipedia is all about. I await your reply with interest. Kind regards, Ron (Visionaire87 (talk) (08:25, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
It looks like you didn't carefully read, what I wrote. Firstly I sayed if you want, that the link points to the current seasons stats, than you have to update the link for at the beginning of the season and therefore this link wouldn't be stable. Secondly I said if you want to add links to every seasons stats (I assume there won't be just three seasons on the webpage). And by the way no external links section has more than one link to the same website. They would be useful if the website would have pages, where the stats for every season are present at the same time. If this would exist, than I even would be help to add such links. It's also interesting to note, that these links were only added for top players (such as Ronnie O'Sullivan or Mark Williams), and not for lesser known players (Kurt Maflin or Zhang Anda) Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs08:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I see your point, I apologize for the confusion. Regarding the season stats, for example the current season (2011/2012). The link is this. The link will stay the same, although of course the page itself would feature more information as the season progresses. Season 2010/2011 is now complete, and shows a more complete picture. I believe this would be what you mean with "pages, where the stats for every season are present at the same time". Otherwise, you might be helped by the pages on here. Also, most pages have year/season selectors on them. If this is not what you mean by that, then I must be misunderstanding, apologies for that. The reason I only added them for the main players so far, was that a) it would all be manual work, and as there is currently just under 1000 players in my database I have to start somewhere. The main players would make most people aware of the site, and would let them easily access the statistics for players they want. b) I did not want to get blocked for spamming either. It was never my intention to spam or to promote my own site, simply to provide access to what I believe is, and with more tournaments being added every day, will increasingly be, a valuable resource. (Visionaire87 (talk) 08:53, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
Not exactly. I mean for example this page shows O'Sullivan's stats for the 2011/2012 season, but it would be more useful for the Wikipedia article about him, if there was one page which would contain O'Sullivan's stats from every season present in this database (this link currently doesn't work). This would be really valuable and I would support such addition. Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs09:02, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I see. The link actually shows stats and such for his all-time record (once all results from the past are added in of course), the reason it has the &year=2011 behind it is purely for the match results on the left hand side of the page. It shows stats for all-time, but not all match results on one page, as that page would become so long that it would be difficult to read. I therefore have added the Year and Main Tour Season selectors in the top left-hand corner of the page, to be able to show stats for a certain period only. So in effect, the link does what you ask, with the exception that you have to choose a time period to show match results to improve readability. Would you consider this sufficient? If not, I also have to take into account the load on the servers would be huge to display a page with not only all stats as done now, but also all match results for a player like O'Sullivan, who will have thousands of matches on his record once all is complete. Also, what of, for example, the tournament pages (for example this and its corresponding ranking page this). I would love to work out a way to add these, and am willing to work with you to achieve something that works :) (Visionaire87 (talk) 09:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
Well the readability could be maintained by creating a base page which contains the stats on the left side of the page and a selection part for the actual player on the right side of the page (where currently if you choose some time period the matches are listed). This way it would become a general player profile without problems with readability or server loading time. As for tournament pages and the corresponding ranking pages, they have very little information, which isn't currently present in the articles or references. For example the extra information in this is, that the century breaks of the qualifying rounds are at the matches in them they were compiled. Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs10:22, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
That I won't be able to do, as I believe that while this may work for a Wikipedia link, it would be very confusing for general visitors to the site. Also, I want to combine all information on one page, which is why I created it in this way in the first place. I believe the page the way it is would stil add value to the Wiki article, as it actually does show more than the system you are suggesting, and I believe it is also less confusing. I see your point regarding the tournament pages, and will not be adding those to the wiki. Would you allow adding of the season pages, as discussed before, as they do show and link to various statistics? (Visionaire87 (talk) 10:29, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
Would it be possible if nor year, nor season selection was made, that it displays the matches from the current season? As for the season links they could be added, but some corrections would be beneficial. The player links should link to their results in the relevant season and not the most recent/current. For example at the 2009/2010 season the players link to their matches from the 2011, but IMO they should to the matches in the 2009/2010 season. Than Ok, as I already reinstated the link for the current season. The reason for this removal could be expanded to: info about a previous season not needed on this article. Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs10:45, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Regarding the removal reason, I seem to have added the wrong link there, fair enough. I will make the correction you recommended of the player links in the season overview linking to their results for that season. I will also adjust the player page as you described, so that it defaults to the current season. So, just to be clear, if I change it so that http://www.cuetracker.net/pages/players.php?pl=18 shows Ronnie's stats for all-time, as well as his matches for the current season, I can add it to his Wiki page? I will make the corrections tonight. Thanks for working with me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Visionaire87 (talk • contribs) 11:03, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I have made the changes we discussed, and added links to Ronnie O'Sullivan and Season 2010/2011's article. I hope this is all right with you. If so, please let me know, and I will add some more as I come across them. Please note I will not be able to add huge amounts within a short time period, as I am a bit busy at work unfortunately. Thanks for all your help! (Visionaire87 (talk) 22:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC))
It seems some guy called Sole_Soul has found it necessary to remove some of the links again. I've already tried to ask him why, no reply yet. Is there some sort of control you have over this? (Visionaire87 (talk) 08:08, 9 September 2011 (UTC))
Guess I'll have to leave adding links to you and others, as I'm getting too much flak from other moderators who only look at the spamming rules, and not at the actual content of the page. I unfortunately don't have time to convince them of the point you already see. Thanks for your help anyway! (Visionaire87 (talk) 15:16, 9 September 2011 (UTC))
I saw Higgins beat Bingham live on Eurosport, walked three meters to my laptop, checked my watchlist and saw you had updated already - [1]. Keep up the good work, Finn Rindahl (talk) 09:34, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have been attempting (obviously unsuccessfully) to update the logo on the M/C Partners page (formerly the M/C Venture Partners page). A jpeg of the new logo is located there. Is this something I should be able to do, and I just lack the proficiency, or am I supposed to request to have this done? I am contacting you as you so kindly assisted me with previous edits to this page. Thank you, Lesliellen Lesliellen (talk) 02:33, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
I can't do that, as these pages are protected and only admins can edit them. By the way they are currently redirects but if wan't to make a requested edit, than there are the codes. Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs12:11, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, Yesterday I attempted to submit a photo for request in order for it to be used on an article on which I'm working called The David (band). The article is not yet saved as it is halfway done and I was just wondering if that was the reason for your rejection of the photo. Must I wait until after my article has been completed and approved by other Wikepedia editors/users before I can incorporate photos into it? Your feedback would be awesome, Jeremy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.11.244.5 (talk) 16:02, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
I have decline you upload request because, the files license wasn't clear and there was no article about this band. According to this, the picture was cropped from the back cover of the bands album titled "Another Day, Another Lifetime". As covers are presumed copyrighted, this had to be declined. Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs02:23, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on image cleanup!
Even if you did unearth two pictures of me I had completely forgotten about. I just went ahead and deleted them and closed out the discussions. Embarrassed now. Cheers. -- Merope21:25, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Armbrust. I am afraid I have to remove your recently uploaded screenshot of Windows Defender on Windows 8 since it violates most of Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria policy, including but not limited to #1, #8 and #10. Generally speaking, the rationale for using this non-free image is to help people distinguish it. But Windows 8 is still at pre-beta (= "Developer preview") stage, therefore very few need to visually identify the Windows Defender that comes with Windows 8 while many need to identify the current production version. NFCC #1 and #8 are also violated: Simply saying that Windows Defender in Windows 8 is almost completely similar to Microsoft Security Essentials is enough. (So, as you see, text replaces non-free image.) Fleet Command (talk) 03:41, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Portal:NASCAR is a place where we can exhibit our best articles and most interesting free images. Any article which is FA, GA, High or Top importance can be added for display as a Selected article or as a Selected biography, free images can be added to be displayed asSelected pictures. All of these are chosen randomly for display on each page view to avoid both bias and having to manually update the page monthly. If you've created or seen an article or image that you feel would be a good addition to the portal, follow the instructions on the pages linked above. Please nominate it on the talk pages.
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Below is the NASCAR Picture of the month (found here). The picture has to be one uploaded in the last month.
Pole position driver Jimmie Johnson maintained his lead on the first lap to begin the race, as A. J. Allmendinger, who started in the second position on the grid, remained behind him. Fourteen laps later Allmendinger became the leader of the race. Chase for the Sprint Cup participants Clint Bowyer, and Tony Stewart were in the top ten for most of the race, but in the closing laps all of them suffered spins or other problems. Afterward, Johnson became the leader of the race, once Allmendinger pitted because of a loose wheel. Johnson maintained the first position to lead the most laps of 191, and to win his sixth race of the season.
There were four cautions and eighteen lead changes among ten different drivers throughout the course of the race. It was Jimmie Johnson's sixth win in the 2010 season, and the fifty-third of his career. The result moved Johnson up to second in the Drivers' Championship, thirty-five points behind Denny Hamlin and ten ahead of Kyle Busch. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-five ahead of Toyota and eighty ahead of Ford, with eight races remaining in the season. A total of 88,000 people attended the race, while 3.966 million watched it on television.
Just a minor request: When working on a player bio, please make sure that the nationality category for the person exists, and create it (and tag its talk page) if it doesn't exist yet. E.g. Stephan Cohen was (properly) labeled with Category:French pool players, since 2009, but that category didn't exist until tonight, and as a result the WP:CUE project at large didn't even know the article existed. I also just created Category:Italian pool players, since Stefano Pelinga was categorized thus. I'm sure there are other missing categories of this sort (and perhaps some "Category:X snooker players", "Category:X carom billiards players", too), but they are hard to track down. — SMcCandlishTalk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀContribs. 06:14, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
WikiCup 2011 September newsletter
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by Miyagawa (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions) and Sp33dyphil (submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles (1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.
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 ed1712:27, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Seems everything okay, but is one line sections without the chance for expansion really needed? These are the following sections: Rotterdam, Monte Carlo Masters, London (Queens) and China Open. Didn't count the section "French Open", because it could and should be expanded. Also I don't think there is any need for subsections in the "Davis Cup" section, like the "Argentina vs Serbia". Regards, Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs14:01, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Well in order to accept this article, it needs reliable sources, which independent of the subject. Lets see the source currently in the article: Youtube isn't reliable, official website isn't independent, Facebook isn't reliable nor independent, IMDb isn't reliable and the High 4 Manangment website isn't independent. This means there is no third party reliable source in the submission. Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs22:20, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Armbrust, the image was accepted and uploaded, but doesn't show up in the gallery of images or within article's body. Please explain, thx. (91.79.198.223 (talk) 09:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC))
FYI... they changed the rules on WP:BLPPROD again. No longer do you need a reliable reference, but now all you need is any reference. So, under new rules, her website counts as a reference. Bgwhite (talk) 06:31, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Tatiana article has been corrected in accordance with all requirements. It was supplemented by several references to official sources, such as WPBSA site (Official website of World Snooker Association). Link to article User:DmitryYakunin/Tatiana Woollaston. Could you restore this article? DmitryYakunin (talk) 17:03, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Added links to EBSA (European Billiards & Snooker Association) and BSF (Belarussian Snooker Federation), which contains official information about date of birth, education, referee career. Now we have a reference to the three snooker associations - World (WPBSA), European (EBSA) and Belarusian (BSF). DmitryYakunin (talk) 18:04, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
I have taken a deeper look in the page. Many of the sources don't support, what is on the page. These were marked with [not in citation given]. Also the EBSA source is again just a passing mention in a list. If you think you have corrected these issues, than add {{subst:AFC submission/submit}} to the page and it will be reviewed. Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs18:33, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
You say: "This request has been placed on hold while pending a confirmation of permission. If a response is not received within seven days, the request will be declined. Sir Armbrust" - what can I do to give you more evidence? HostDavid (talk) 10:12, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
I have asked Yvonne to send them that e-mail. Thank you very much. After she has sent the email, will she be sent a link for how to use the photo on a page? HostDavid (talk) 12:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
After she sent the e-mail, give me a note and I will upload the image. However if the e-mail doesn't contain enough information for verification, than the picture will be deleted. Sir ArmbrustTalk to meContribs18:37, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Portal:NASCAR is a place where we can exhibit our best articles and most interesting free images. Any article which is FA, GA, High or Top importance can be added for display as a Selected article or as a Selected biography, free images can be added to be displayed as Selected pictures. All of these are chosen randomly for display on each page view to avoid both bias and having to manually update the page monthly. If you've created or seen an article or image that you feel would be a good addition to the portal, follow the instructions on the pages linked above. Please nominate it on the talk pages.
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Below is the NASCAR Picture of the month (found here). The picture has to be one uploaded in the last month.
It is exclusive to the Newsletter. REMEMBER, YOU CAN VOTE.
The Unocal-Darlington Record Club was a club in the NASCARGrand National and Winston Cup Series from 1959 to about 2001, based at Darlington Raceway. Membership was achieved based on setting qualifying records during time trials for the annual Southern 500 held on Labor Day weekend. During its heyday, it was considered one of the most prestigious and exclusive clubs in motorsports.The club was sponsored by longtime NASCAR sponsor Unocal/Union 76. Previously it was sponsored by Pure Oil. At some time after the 2001 season, the club was quietly retired. The club ended permanently when Unocal left the sport in 2003, and the Southern 500 was removed from the schedule after 2004.The original eight charter members were selected in 1959: Dick Joslin (Dodge), Marvin Panch (Ford), Joe Caspolich (Oldsmobile), Bob Burdick (Thuderbird), Speedy Thompson (Chevrolet), Richard Petty (Plymouth), Elmo Langley (Buick), and Fireball Roberts (Pontiac). Roberts was selected as the first president; Former Darlington Raceway president Bob Colvin contributed in creating the club.
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Shirley MacLaine and Karen Kendall - China in 1973.jpg
You have rejected the above named image because of the copyright on the webpage on which it is found. I am Karen Kendall, the owner of the image and I agree to put the image in the public domain and allow it to appear on the Wikipedia page that discusses the film "The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir." What must I do to get the image uploaded and linked to appear on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.56.218.232 (talk) 17:03, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
The 2011 WikiCup is now over, and our new champion is Hurricanehink (submissions), who joins the exclusive club of the previous winners: Dreamafter (2007), jj137 (2008), Durova (2009) and Sturmvogel_66 (2010). The final standings were as follows:
Prizes for first, second, third and fourth will be awarded, as will prizes for all those who reached the final eight. Every participant who scored in the competition will receive a ribbon of participation. In addition to the prizes based on placement, the following special prizes will be awarded based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, the prize is awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round.
The Featured List Award: Miyagawa (submissions), for his performance in round 4. PresN (submissions) matched the score, but Miyagawa won the tiebreaker.
The Recognised Topic Award (for good and featured topics): PresN (submissions), for his performance in round 3.
The Reviewer Award (for good article reviews): Wizardman (submissions), for his performance in round 3.
No prize was awarded for featured pictures, sounds or portals, as none were claimed throughout the competition. The awards will be handed out over the next few days. Congratulations to all our participants, and especially our winners; we've all had fun, and Wikipedia has benefitted massively from our content work.
Preparation for next year's WikiCup is ongoing. Interested parties are invited to sign up and participate in our straw polls. It's been a pleasure to work with you all this year, and, whoever's taking part in and running the competition in 2012, we hope to see you all in January! J Milburn and The ed1700:31, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, I attempted to upload a logo today, but was declined as the Wikipedia page wasn't live yet, it is now live so do I have to resubmit the image, or can its status be altered? Thanks, Charlie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlie Naylor (talk • contribs) 16:51, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
You wrote: "During the discussion the idea of expiration date came up, but there is no consensus on how many time this should be."
The sentence's wording makes it seem as if there was a consensus for an expiration date but that there was no consensus on what the expiration date should be.
I don't think this is accurate. Would you reword it to something like:
During the discussion, several editors proposed that G4 would expire after a set period of time had elapsed from the AfD discussion. There was insufficient participation and discussion about this issue, so there is neither a consensus for an expiration date nor a consensus for how long the expiration date should be. This issue can be ironed out in a new discussion by interested editors.
Thank you. It looks much better. In first suggestion above I asked you to close Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#G4 and subsequent XfDs with See [[#Is CSD G4 applicable or inapplicable to a previously kept page whose most recent discussion ended in deletion?|my close below]]. What I meant was for you to enclose the earlier part of the discussion with archive templates and refer editors who access that link to your closure below. I have no preference as to which closing template you use. Cunard (talk) 00:30, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of File:Mouth of the rubicon.jpg
Hello, bit puzzled as to why this was deleted, on my talk page, just above your notice, there was already a speedy deletion nomination - which was removed with an apology because the image is my own copyright. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mym-uk (talk • contribs) 09:03, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure, but according to your talk page for copyright violation. If I remember right, the source file description page was FlickR file. The license of the file on FlickR contained either the non-commercial (nc) or no-derivative (nd) component, which isn't compatible with Wikipedia. ArmbrustTalk to meabout my editsreview15:17, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
This was not a careful speedy nomination. Did you notice there are articles in three other WPs? If you had clicked on the German one you would have seen the extensive article there? And if you had looked at its references, you would have seen there is even a book about him. DGG ( talk ) 16:44, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I tweaked the template ffu|h and adding a link to the permission page. Please check and correct my grammar if needed.
This request has been placed on hold while pending a confirmation of permission. For further steps and how to proceed, please read Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries. If a response is not received within seven days, the request will be declined.
Your making too many mistakes, please don't spoil it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheDugster100 (talk • contribs) 22:21, 17 November 2011
Which mistake? Trying to edit an article, which you don't want others to edit. If the formatting isn't right, than correct and build upon it. It's borderline disruptive to undo them, because they are not perfect. ArmbrustTalk to meabout my editsreview22:26, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Well, than include this in the edit summary. This way everybody knows, why you removed the information. By the way the three darts averages for the group stage are unverified at the moment. Please add references to them. Every unreferenced information could be removed any time. ArmbrustTalk to meabout my editsreview22:40, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I've been trying to upload the front cover of the Isis (http://isismagazine.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/the-go-issue-cover.png) as a file. Sorry, I know I'm being a bit ignorant but I'm not quite sure what the problem is with the file. I'm the current editor so I know that we're happy as a magazine for the image to be used on Wikipedia. Let me know if there's anything I can do to fix the current issues. Best, Jane (— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.121.33.187 (talk) 21:22, 18 November 2011
If you're entitled to give permission to the use of these image, than please follow the steps described at WP:CONSENT. (Please send a copy to me too, to armbrustvipmail.hu.}) If you have done that, than give me a note and I will upload the picture. ArmbrustTalk to meabout my editsreview21:29, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I've just sent the e-mail about giving permission for the front cover of the Isis to be used on Wikipedia. If there are any other problems, please let me know. Thanks 2.121.33.187 (talk) 21:42, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
I added the statistics part, it is difficult to give a single reference or source for it. Source are the match statistics published on pdc.tv under references 8 to 15, put into an Excel sheet and calculated the sums, maximums and averages with it. Everyone could re-check it, I even can upload the Excel sheet somewhere - but I doubt that this would qualify as a realiable source. Any suggestions for this? (Ebondazzar (talk) 15:53, 19 November 2011 (UTC))
I noticed that you declined the logo upload request due to the content copyright message at the bottom of the page. Only the content of the site is copyrighted. The logo is not currently copyrighted. I am the marketing manager of the company simply trying to get the logo uploaded for our company wikipedia page. Is there something that I need to do in order to get the image uploaded? A change I should make? Feel free to email me at josh@mirusfutures.com. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Slosh3719 (talk) 16:03, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
As the closer of G4 RfC, would you assess the consensus at G4: Moving forward? There has been little discussion since 12 November 2011. NuclearWarfare (talk·contribs) added "the page's most recent [discussion]" to the policy on 11 November 2011.
The discussion after your close involved whether to change the policy's lead and whether a footnote should be added to Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#G4. If you can assess the consensus on these two points (and revise the policy per your assessment), I would be grateful. Best, Cunard (talk) 08:45, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, You declined my image upload request for the We Buy Any Car logo as it was 'too low quality'. It was only going to be used as a logo in the infobox and thus I struggle to see how it was too low quality for this. I can't find any guidance on the subject. I tried to upload the same logo in the past - which was declined as the page for it hadn't yet been created - and this time followed the steps suggested to me on my talk page so I'd really appreciate further guidance. Itsfini (talk) 17:39, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
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The 2010 Ford 400 was a NASCARSprint Cup Seriesstock car race that was held on November 21, 2010 at Homestead Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. The 267 lap race was the thirty-sixth in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the final race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. The race was won by Carl Edwards for the Roush Fenway Racing team. Jimmie Johnson finished second, and Kevin Harvick clinched third. Pole position driver Kasey Kahne maintained his lead on the first lap of the race. Edwards started in the second position on the grid, and became the leader of the race on the fourth lap. Shortly after a restart on lap 22, championship leader Denny Hamlin spun sideways, resulting with damage to his splitter. Martin Truex, Jr. took the lead on lap 73, but after the final pit stops Edwards was first. He maintained the lead to win the race, having led it for 192 laps. A total of 67,000 people attended the race, while 5.605 million watched it on television. There were ten cautions in the race, as well as twenty-five lead changes among nine different drivers. Edwards' victory was his second win in the 2010 season, with the first coming the previous week at the Kobalt Tools 500. Jimmie Johnson won the Drivers' Championship, 39 points ahead of Denny Hamlin. Johnson's team owner Rick Hendrick won the Owners' Championship. Chevrolet won the Manufacturer Championship with 261 points, 44 points ahead of Toyota. (Read more...)
Read this on the UK champs from the 1970's and clearly the article states that the event was called the UK Open from 84-91 but none of the articles are under it's correct name Dotdotdashdash (talk) 17:35, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Could I ask why you changed the size of the images on this page without any explanation? Is there something in the MOS that says 200px is better than 175px? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schrodinger's cat is alive (talk • contribs) 18:31, 30 November 2011
Thanks: I've reverted one, which crossed over the quote box on some screen sizes. The other two I've left alone. - SchroCat (^ • @) 20:02, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
RFA thank you
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About Hossein Vafaei
I am quite sure that the winner of IBSF World Snooker Championship will get the permission into the Main Snooker Tour of the following season. But it seems we do not have the agreement about that. If you check the status of the winners of 2009 IBSF World Snooker Championship and 2010 IBSF World Snooker Championship, both started their professional career for the season after their wins. Alfred Burden the winner of 2009 IBSF World Snooker Championship started his professional career from 2010/2011 World Tour as you can check here. And Dechawat Poomjaeng the winner of 2010 IBSF World Snooker Championship started his professional career from 2011/2012 World Tour as you can check here. And I am sure the same will happen for the winner of 2011 IBSF World Snooker Championship! Anyway if you want still insist in your idea and ignore all references that I added for this issue, it is still fine for me! Regards Koorosh1234 (talk) 13:39, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
As I said this is speculation. There are examples, that the qualification criteria can change: (1) For the previous two seasons England could nominate two players for the Main Tour (Pro Ticket Tour Number One and Pro Ticket Play-Offs winner), but for the current season only one. (2) For at least two season the was one place allocated for the winner of the Oceania Championship, but this place was withdrawn after the 2009/2010 season. World Snooker still hasn't released which player will have a place on the 2012/2013 Main Tour. The sources you have added are blogs, and blogs are generally not reliable sources. ArmbrustTalk to meabout my editsreview13:52, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, your discussion seems reasonable. Then, let's wait up to the time that 2012/2013 Main Tour Selection plan will be out. Koorosh1234 (talk) 15:26, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Update sections (FEI World Cup Jumping 2011/2012)
I have seen that you added again "update sections" in FEI World Cup Jumping 2011/2012. Much of this sections can not be updated: In the refernces of the events you can see, that also the FEI didn't know the results because the organizers of this events had not report it to the FEI. In two other sections the Grand Prix events was yesterday afternoon. Here it would been nice if you had waited one day. --Nordlicht8 (talk) 17:40, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
If there are events where not even FEI knows the results, than add <ref group="n" name="noresult"/> in the place of the winner and the following before the references section:
Hi There. Thanks for your help/comments on Consumer Choices - much appreciated. Can I ask, is it all the external links you feel should be removed, or just some of them? We included them really as we thought it gave a good overview of other companies in the marketplace etc, but we are more than happy to pull them, especially if you feel it would make the Wiki page better. Perhaps we should leave the Ofcom one though? As that's the UK telecoms regulatory body (then again, it is in the refs list, so maybe even pull that?). I am happy to do as you suggest, and if I could get you opinion, I would really value it - not just for this page, but it would help me to better understand the way things should be done in the future ;) Once again, thanks for your time... much appreciated! (If you weren't so far away, I would offer you a beer! - Well, have a 'virtual beer' on me! Thanks again MikeGracia (talk)
External links should only include information which related to subject of the article and gives additional information about it. Currently none of them do this, thus al should be removed. Additionally you could use the links in the "Media Mentions" section as references to improve the article. ArmbrustTalk to meabout my editsreview22:38, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Okay thanks! I will remove the external links right away, and then after that, look at ways to integrate the media mentions into the article and cite them as as references. Thanks for the help/advice! MikeGracia (talk)
Hello sir, I'm talking to you regarding the article "Kooora Wrestling Awards" which you told me it is Nominated for deletion. The awards is well known at the middle east, and it is discussed all around the internet society and local media, like some newspapers, and each year thousands participates on the awards. And if you need any sources you can search for it at Google, or take a look at its official site: http://forum.kooora.com/f.aspx?mode=f&f=91. Please I beg you to keep the page, as I worked hard for it since 2008, and next month the 2011 results will be announced and I'm intending to add it hopefully to Wikipedia. (Triplea1987 (talk) 18:08, 10 December 2011 (UTC))
Hi there. Just noticed you moved Template:Video game rationale to Template:Video game screenshot rationale and said it's not to be used for covers. I just wanted to know where the discussion was that decided this? I created that template originally and had intended it to handle any kind of non-free image related to video games, including box covers, logos and screenshots. It seems rather limiting to make it screenshot-only. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 23:49, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
FYI, I've moved the template back to its original location for the time being and started up a discussion there. I couldn't find any place where this had been previously discussed - please point me to it if a prior discussion exists, or feel free to leave a message in the new discussion. :) — KieferSkunk (talk) — 06:51, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that very few editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!
If it isn't an article, why is all of its material article-style content? Especially since the editting instructions ask you to cite sources. --Falcadore (talk) 05:06, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
As Current events/Sports is a child of Current Events, I think the template is built in. Current Events edittors don't have any problem with referencing. --Falcadore (talk) 07:02, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Or maybe CE/S has too many, which has been another point I've unsuccesfully raise as those contributing to the page presently actively seek to maintain the present state of affairs regardless of what happens elsewhere in Wikipedia. --Falcadore (talk)
That does not invalidate anything I've said. It may just say that nobody who currently contributes cares about Wikipedias standards. Should laziness be encouraged?
And very seriously, what about verfiability? Some of these results could be made up and no-one would know any different. --Falcadore (talk) 02:04, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
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The 2011 Subway Fresh Fit 500 was a NASCARSprint Cup Seriesstock car race held on February 27, 2011 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. Contested over 312 laps, it was the second race of the 2011 season and was won by Jeff Gordon for Hendrick Motorsports from Kyle Busch in second and Jimmie Johnson third. Carl Edwards led the first lap from pole position ahead of Kurt Busch who started second on the grid. The race was caution free until lap 29 (debris), and then 48 laps later a multiple crash occurred involving 13 drivers. Later there were several lead changes, and another four cautions. With nine laps remaining, Gordon took the lead from Kyle Busch to win his first race of the season, his first in more than 60 races. There were eight cautions and 29 lead changes among 12 different drivers during the race. Gordon's win moved him to sixth position in the drivers' championship, 15 points behind leader Kyle Busch and one ahead of Bobby Labonte in seventh. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Toyota, Ford and Chevrolet had 12 points, four ahead of Dodge. A total of 75,000 people attended the race, and 10.36 million watched it on television.
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I just found that footnote 15, re O'Sullivan's assault on a match official, is a dead link. The Times piece it refers to is simply not available. But I have no idea what to do about it re the WP article. Would you mind following up, please? Ta. Happy New Year, btw. 121.220.35.93 (talk) 00:18, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, Thanks for making the change requested to the Akamai Logo page (File:Akamai_logo.svg). One question -- when I click on the logo on that page, it brings me back to the old logo as an image. Is there any way to change the click-through link as well? Also, how do I get it to change on this page: Akamai_Technologies? Thanks for your help! 173.51.122.21 (talk) 18:48, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
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