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WikiCup 2015 launch newsletter

Round one of the 2015 WikiCup has begun! So far we've had around 80 signups, which close on February 5. If you have not already signed up and want to do so, then you can add your name here. There have been changes to to several of the points scores for various categories, and the addition of Peer Reviews for the first time. These will work in the same manner as Good Article Reviews, and all of the changes are summarised here.

Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round, and one of the new changes this year is that all scores must be claimed within two weeks of an article's promotion or appearance, so don't forget to add them to your submissions pages! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, 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. Good luck! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs)
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Sudhir shah

You deleted the page of dr sudhir shah because of alleged copyright infringement. Actually the sudhirneuro.org is the site of dr sudhir shah only, there is no case of copyright infringement at all, both persons are same Italic text

Put the Tom Naughton article back up! He's a filmmaker, stand up comedian, and a blogger. "no evidence of notoriety?" BS! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.17.177.188 (talk) 09:19, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary

Happy Adminship from the Birthday Committee

Wishing User:James086/Archives/2015 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

-- Vatsan34 (talk) 15:58, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Australia Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email)

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WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of several of Godot13's quality submissions during round 1

That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. 64 competitors made it into this round, and are now broken into eight groups of eight. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups. Round 1 saw some interesting work on some very important articles, with the round leader Australia Freikorp (submissions) owing most of his 622 points scored to a Featured Article on the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within which qualified for a times-two multiplier. This is a higher score than in previous years, as Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) had 500 points in 2014 at the end of round 1, and our very own judge, Colorado Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) led round 1 with 601 points in 2013.

In addition to Freikorp's work, some other important articles and pictures were improved during round one, here's a snapshot of a few of them:

You may also wish to know that The Core Contest is running through the month of March. Head there for further details - they even have actual prizes!

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. 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 or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email)

Thanks for your assistance! Miyagawa (talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiCup.

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Now this image is used in Article Pilot (50 Cent song).

    • Now this image is used in Article Pilot (50 Cent song). So I think you need to leave this image for article. -- Nikolai56 — 09:33, March 31 2014 (UTC)

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Welcome back!

Nice to see you back on Wikipedia! Liz Read! Talk! 16:00, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 May newsletter

C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered on 17 August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy; and is one of several Featured Pictures worked up by India The Herald (submissions) during the second round.

The second round one has all wrapped up, and round three has now begun! Congratulations to the 34 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our second round. Leading the way overall was Belarus Cas Liber (submissions) in Group B with a total of 777 points for a variety of contributions including Good Articles on Corona Borealis and Microscopium - both of which received the maximum bonus.

Special credit must be given to a number of high importance articles improved during the second round.

The points varied across groups, with the lowest score required to gain automatic qualification was 68 in Group A - meanwhile the second place score in Group H was 404, which would have been high enough to win all but one of the other Groups! As well as the top two of each group automatically going through to the third round, a minimum score of 55 was required for a wildcard competitor to go through. We had a three-way tie at 55 points and all three have qualified for the next round, in the spirit of fairness. The third round ends on June 28, with the top two in each group progressing automatically while the remaining 16 highest scorers across all four groups go through as wildcards. Good luck to all competitors for the third round! Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · email) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) 16:35, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Deleted page

Is there any way I can retrieve the code for the Wikipedia page 'Patricia Randolph Goodson (Karhanová)' deleted on 10 May 2015 by James086? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Randolph_Goodson_(Karhanov%C3%A1)

Thank you. Noochinator (talk) 11:22, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Tagging orphaned non-free files

Hi James086, it looks like you are going through Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused non-free files and tagging these files as orphaned non-free files. FYI, I have a bot - B-bot (talk · contribs) - that is going this, so it is not necessary for a human to do it any more. Also, if a file becomes orphaned through vandalism and then that edit is rolled back, the image links are note updated until the page is edited again, meaning that the database report will often have false positives. My bot, prior to tagging, purges all pages for which there is a fair use rationale in an effort to reduce those false positives. --B (talk) 12:05, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

File:WTCF-FM 2012.jpg

Got one more revision of this file to remove. I scaled the image back to 300x402px and uploaded another version. Previous, larger version is the one that needs to be removed. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 00:37, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Done! It saves tagging and waiting another week per CSD F5. Thanks, James086Talk 00:54, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks and You're Welcome. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:04, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

DerrickMa5

Thanks for moving his message from my userpage to my talk page. I'll return the favor:

*Message From: DerrickMa5 Note: Noticed That I Requesting Your Friend Now.

By the way did you see this? --MelanieN (talk) 14:07, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Master Chief in Halo 4.png

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Thanks for uploading File:Master Chief in Halo 4.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:38, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Regarding deleted articles

Hi James, I have reinstated the page for the band Boiled in Lead, which you had deleted on the grounds of A7, "no indication of importance." The old version of the article was poorly sourced and did not adequately address this issue. I have written a new article which should satisfactorily answer the question of relevance; the band has been reviewed many times in notable national/international publications, and has been repeatedly cited as an important band in its genre. I plan to add more to the page as time allows. Mehendri Solon (talk) 07:04, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

I am Mounir SAADA From Tunisia and I received a message from you about a "supposed-article-I-posted". I inform you that I don't have a thing to do with the article you talk me about: (Fred Carvens). I never posted or edited such an article. Greetings Mounir SAADA (talk) 12:57, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi James, I just looked up Saga Becker on the English Wikipedia and discovered you had removed the relevant page (some time in May if I understand Wikipedia correctly). The reason given is A7 "no indication of importance" which I find puzzling. Becker is a Swedish actress, true she has only one film to her credit - Nånting måste gå sönder/Something must break (2014) - but she's only in her twenties. For her role in this movie as the transgender Sebastian/Ellie, she won the 2014 Best Actress Guldbagge award ("the Swedish equivalent of the Oscars") and was in fact the first transgender person to win a Guldbagge. See this article on the website of Radio Sweden: [1] I've just listened to her progrmme in the Sveriges Radio "Sommar" series - in Swedish of course, but you can see from this link ([2] )that at least Sveriges Radio considers her sufficiently important as an actor, as a role model for transgender people and as an activist for suicide prevention to give her a 90 minute radio slot. I recommend that you reinstate her page. With best wishes, John Nixon 2A02:A03F:16A6:EF00:55D4:FD08:804D:9B7B (talk) 13:00, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Article speedy deletion under A7

Assuming good faith (James086 has no stated deletionist/exclusionist attitude) it looks like there's an unfortunate pattern of speedy deletion being misused.

I am acting as a seconder to John Nixon 2A02:A03F:16A6:EF00:55D4:FD08:804D:9B7B (talk)'s concerns about the deletion of the page Saga Becker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Saga_Becker

This topic could act as a notification to James086 of my undeletion request and as a clearinghouse for general concern about this speedy deletion trend. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EdJ343 (talk • contribs) 22:31, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

@EdJ343: The deleted article had only one unsourced line in it, about starring in a film that doesn't even have its own Wikipedia article. Restoring that single line isn't worthwhile. You are free to re-create the article with more substance and sources. No one will stop you. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:32, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
@Amatulic: Thanks for the information. Good for any idle readers to at least know why if they dig this far. EdJ343 (talk) 00:09, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
I stand by my deletions. A speedy deletion doesn't preclude someone from creating the article again, it just means that the article was in a state that matched the criteria for speedy deletion. You can create an article for Saga Becker if you like, just like the article Boiled in Lead mentioned above was recreated. The Boiled in Lead article I deleted had no sources to assert importance and made no mention of their influence within their genre, the new article fixes both of those problems and so it would be improper to delete the new version. The same principle applies to Saga Becker, if the article is written and it meets our standards for inclusion then there's no way I'd delete it. James086Talk 08:56, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 September newsletter

The finals for the 2015 Wikicup has now begun! Congrats to the 8 contestants who have survived to the finals, and well done and thanks to everyone who took part in rounds 3 and 4.

In round 3, we had a three-way tie for qualification among the wildcard contestants, so we had 34 competitors. The leader was by far Scotland Casliber (submissions) in Group B, who earned 1496 points. Although 913 of these points were bonus points, he submitted 15 articles in the DYK category. Second place overall was Philadelphia Coemgenus (submissions) at 864 points, who although submitted just 2 FAs for 400 points, earned double that amount for those articles in bonus points. Everyone who moved forward to Round 4 earned at least 100 points.

The scores required to move onto the semifinals were impressive; the lowest scorer to move onto the finals was 407, making this year's Wikicup as competitive as it's always been. Our finalists, ordered by round 4 score, are:

  1. Belarus Cas Liber (submissions), who is competing in his sixth consecutive Wikicup final, again finished the round in first place, with an impressive 1666 points in Pool B. Casliber writes about the natural sciences, including ornithology, botany and astronomy. A large bulk of his points this round were bonus points.
  2. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (FP bonus points), second place both in Pool B and overall, earned the bulk of his points with FPs, mostly depicting currency.
  3. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions), first in Pool A, came in third. His specialty is natural science articles; in Round 4, he mostly submitted articles about insects and botany. Five out of the six of the GAs he submitted were level-4 vital articles.
  4. Somerset Harrias (submissions), second in Pool A, took fourth overall. He tends to focus on articles about cricket and military history, specifically the 1640s First English Civil War.
  5. Washington, D.C. West Virginian (submissions), from Pool A, was our highest-scoring wildcard. West Virginia tends to focus on articles about the history of (what for it!) the U.S. state of West Virginia.
  6. Somerset Rodw (submissions), from Pool A, likes to work on articles about British geography and places. Most of his points this round were earned from two impressive accomplishments: a GT about Scheduled monuments in Somerset and a FT about English Heritage properties in Somerset.
  7. United States Rationalobserver (submissions), from Pool B, came in seventh overall. RO earned the majority of her points from GARs and PRs, many of which were earned in the final hours of the round.
  8. England Calvin999 (submissions), also from Pool B, who was competing with RO for the final two spots in the final hours, takes the race for most GARs and PRs—48.

The intense competition between RO and Calvin999 will continue into the finals. They're both eligible for the Newcomers Trophy, given for the first time in the Wikicup; whoever makes the most points will win it.

Good luck to the finalists; the judges are sure that the competition will be fierce!

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 11:48, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Talk pages of deleted files

There are currently a large number of talk pages at CAT:CSD which appear to be due to you deleting files but not deleting the associated talk page. SpinningSpark 09:32, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015: The results

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 Smithsonian Institution 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. Wales 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. Belarus 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 United States 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:

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.

Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · logs), Miyagawa (talk · contribs · logs) and Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · logs) 18:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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WikiCup 2016 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and we would like to wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2016 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. There are some changes we'd like to announce before the competition begins.

After two years of serving as WikiCup judge, User:Miyagawa has stepped down as judge. He deserves great thanks and recognition for his dedication and hard work, and for providing necessary transition for a new group of judges in last year's Cup. Joining Christine (User:Figureskatingfan) and Jason (User:Sturmvogel 66) is Andrew (User:Godot13), a very successful WikiCup competitor and expert in Featured Pictures; he won the two previous competitions. This is a strong judging team, and we anticipate lots of enjoyment and good work coming from our 2016 competitors.

We would also like to announce one change in how this year's WikiCup will be run. In the spirit of sportsmanship, Godot13 and Cwmhiraeth have chosen to limit their participation. See here for the announcement and a complete explanation of why. They and the judges feel that it will make for a more exciting, enjoyable, and productive competition.

The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. The judges are committed to not repeating the confusion that occurred last year and to ensuring that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Figureskatingfan (talk), and Godot13 (talk).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Sadie Calvano

Although I realize that you are somewhat inactive, I just thought I'd let you know that I have re-created this article (it is under construction, however). Erpert blah, blah, blah... 05:30, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

  1. ^ https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=6098518
  2. ^ https://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/571818?programid=2071