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Arbitration
Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.
In addition to recognizing the achievements of the top finishers and everyone who worked hard to make it to the final round, we also want to recognize those participants who were most productive in each of the WikiCup scoring categories:
Featured Article – Cas Liber (actually a two-way tie with themselves for an astonishing five FAs in R2 and R4).
Good Article – Adityavagarwal had 14 GAs promoted in R5.
Over the course of the 2017 WikiCup the following content was added or improved on Wikipedia: 51 Featured Articles, 292 Good Articles, 18 Featured Lists, 1 Featured Picture, 1 Featured Topics, 4 Good Topics, around 400 Did You Knows, 75 In The News, and 442 Good Article Reviews. Thank you to all the competitors for your hard work and what you have done to improve Wikipedia.
Regarding the prize vouchers - @Adityavagarwal, Vanamonde93, Casliber, Bloom6132, 1989, and SounderBruce: please send Godot13 (talk·contribs·email) an email from the email address to which you would like your Amazon voucher sent. Please include your preference of global Amazon marketplace as well. We hope to have the electronic gift cards processed and sent within a week.
So the 2017 WikiCup has come to an end. Congratulations to the winner, to the other finalists and to all those who took part. 177 contestants signed up, more than usual, but not all of them submitted entries in the first round. Were editors attracted by the cash prizes offered for the first time this year, or were these irrelevant? Do the rules and scoring need changing for the 2018 WikiCup? If you have a view on these or other matters, why not join in the WikiCup discussion about next year's contest? Sturmvogel 66 (talk·contribs·email), Godot13 (talk·contribs·email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk·contribs·email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
Iazyges I have recently granted WP:New pages patrol right and started to reviewed some of the new pages. I came to notice that with the read up I have done, I was not reviewed some of pages correctly, and would like to seek you as a the mentor to guide me on this subject since you are one of the trainer for this program. Thank you in advance.CASSIOPEIA (talk) 14:36, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
I understand you are one of the New pages reviewer trainer, and I would like to sign up the program under your guidance. Kindly accept my request and thank you. CASSIOPEIA (talk) 12:51, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
1. For FC Florești, the "unsourced" rationale doesn't work because it has a valid external link. Ideally this external link would be cited in the passage with an inline citation, however it is enough to prove the existence of the club.
2. For 2017 Maldives FA Cup, here again the article has external links, but no inline citations. If an article lacks inline citations, feel free to paste a {{no footnotes}} tag onto it, basically saying that it has references (or links) placed in it at the end, but no citations to say what information goes with what source.
3. For 7th Annual NFL Honors, I'd first mention that any "future" class article is difficult to work with for a curator. The general guideline for future articles is that they should be for things that are absolute certainties, or at least as near to them as possible, and immediately relevant (timewise) (feel free to read Wikipedia:Future event for a better definition, but note that this is an essay, not Wiki policy). In this case, it's almost absolutely certain that the NFL will have its Honors ceremony, unless it disbands, which is very unlikely. It also passes the "immediately relevant" benchmark, as it is to occur in a few months.
4. For Rafał Wolsztyński: The BLP PROD is for articles that have no sources, and this one has two sources (although they are the same website in different languages, so technically only one source).
Overall, most of the mistakes you made have to do with sources; sources mean any reference or external link cited, even if they aren't the most trustworthy (if they are very untrustworthy, you may wish to start a AfD about them), or else not cited within the article (in which case you should use the no footnote template I have shown above). Future articles are difficult in general, so I'd recommend you stay away from curating any article about future subjects until you have more experience. IazygesConsermonorOpus meum16:55, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi Iazyges, thank you for your comment and advice for now I understand relevant external links would be cited as reference in Wikipedia. Thank you for accepting me as your student for new page reviewer program and I am looking froward to hearing from you on the program and the work/assignments which I need to work on. CASSIOPEIA (talk) 07:47, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
