Have you went and looked at the List of US Open Men's Singles Champions, and seen if you are going to support it. I am fine with no name change to the article as long as everything stays the sames as right now...ThanksBLUEDOGTN00:15, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom three contestants of the top eight were eliminated on September 30th, while the top five are continuing for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 5
Sasata (1153)
Ottava Rima (1148)
Theleftorium (1025)
Durova (1010)
Eliminated 3
Candlewicke (534)
Mitchazenia (352)
Juliancolton (314)
Withdrawn
Shoemaker's Holiday (1183)
All scores are accurate as of 18:28, 11 October 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
Hi everyone! We're very sorry we didn't get this one out anytime sooner. We've all been pretty busy IRL. But down to business: Since the last newsletter, the first half of the round has ended. We said goodbye to Candlewicke, Juliancolton, and Mitchazenia. We'd like to thank them for all of their hard work getting this far. Shoemaker's Holiday has also withdrawn, so we'd like to thank him for his hard work too. Congratulations to Durova, Ottava Rima, Sasata, and Theleftorium for making the top 4! Good luck to you all.
You also may have seen from the WikiCup talk page that we have a new judge! J Milburn is joining our judging team effective immediately. J was assigned after Garden and Thehelpfulone announced they would be highly inactive throughout the remainder of the WikiCup. It is likely you will see J return as a judge next year as well.
Good luck again to the remaining four contestants! 20 days left in the Round, so make sure you get all your content nominated soon! You've all worked hard for this, since the beginning of January. I'm sure you're all tired by now, but you've come too far to just give up now. Congratulations Top 4!
GARDEN, iMatthewtalk, J Milburn, and TheHelpfulOne
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Might you consider withdrawing this? I think the improvements I've made easily allow the article to hold water for the notability guidelines. Thanks, GlassCobra14:06, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom three contestants of the top eight were eliminated on September 30th, while the top five are continued for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 4
Sasata (1332)
Durova (1259)
Ottava Rima (1242)
Theleftorium (1041)
Eliminated 3
Candlewicke (534)
Mitchazenia (352)
Juliancolton (314)
Withdrawn
Shoemaker's Holiday (1183)
All scores are accurate as of 20:45, 18 October 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
We have announced the intention to hire another new judge to cover for future judge absences. If you are interested please see the talk page for the WikiCup.
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30 Rock Update
I finally have an idea for resourcing at the 30 Rock FLC. The source is reliable, it is directly quoting the releases, want to know if it's acceptable for you guys. If so this is a quick fix, if not I'll have to go source by source. Staxringoldtalkcontribs01:07, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Rambo - thanks for taking a look at the recessions article. I had never seen that #tag:ref formatting, and I'm not completely sure I got it correct. If I screwed anything up please let me know and thanks for pointing out that system to me! --JayHenry (talk) 02:48, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Although the FLC is finally over, I wanted to respond to your false accusation of WP:OR. The relevant rule is right here: Wikipedia:OR#Routine calculations. The "extrapolation" that you called "Original Research" is exactly this sort of routine calculation. Calculating a simple average is something taught to 10-year-olds. Wikipedia editors are allowed to calculate averages on their own, because this is truly elementary and uncontroversial mathematics. The FLC process is horrible and I will not be back. The reviewers can make whatever demands they please, even if they are completely irrelevant to the Featured List Criteria and the nominator is forced to comply. I spent over a month addressing the whims of editors who forced me to make changes that have nothing to do with the Featured List Criteria, and was even accused of Original Research for using math that is taught in elementary school even though this is explicitly allowed. --JayHenry (talk) 18:52, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
My OR point wasn't the averaging calculations, it was the arbitrary range of years you used. The NBER used very explicit date ranges which you adhered to with the exception of the last average. My problem was I couldn't see why you would deviate from those ranges. There must be a reason they use those ranges, and the source was published after 2007, so I thought that if they didn't list it as 1945-2007 then why should you. I realise the outcome is the same, but I hope you can see that reasoning is different from an arbitrary calculation and it wasn't just a "whim" of mine. Best, Rambo's Revenge(talk)19:07, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
No, the point is that you falsely accused me of WP:OR. The NBER uses those ranges because it is reporting recessions and expansions. The averages are different for expansions if you include 2007 because there was an additional expansion in that time frame. If they did this, they would include 12 expansions and 11 recessions for that period, which is somewhat lopsided. My list was a list of recessions, that's the title of the article, and so I used 1945 to 2007 in order to be complete, in order to be as up to date as possible. Since I was not detailing expansions, there was no need to worry about an extra expansion being included because I was averaging recessions. --JayHenry (talk) 19:31, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
In this round of the WikiCup, the bottom three contestants of the top eight were eliminated on September 30th, while the top five are continued for an additional month. On October 31, a winner will be announced.
Top 4
Durova (1546)
Sasata (1477)
Ottava Rima (1254)
Theleftorium (1092)
Eliminated 3
Candlewicke (534)
Mitchazenia (352)
Juliancolton (314)
Withdrawn
Shoemaker's Holiday (1183)
All scores are accurate as of 18:59, 25 October 2009 (UTC).
Content Leaders
As of this newsletter, the following is a list of participants in this round with the most:
It just came to me that multiple users have worked together on a bunch of content items, which means the newsletter counts are likely off. I'll try to put that all together and figure it out by the end of the round.
The end of the round, and the end of the 2009 WikiCup is this coming Saturday, October 31! To our top four: don't give up yet. Make sure that anything you have left to nominate is nominated today or tomorrow, for the slighted chance of it passing in time. The last day items will be accepted is Saturday, at 23:59 (UTC). It ain't over till the fat lady sings, of course!
GARDEN, iMatthewtalk, J Milburn, and TheHelpfulOne
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