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Talk:Jesé/GA1 has been removed from your submission page. It is below the minimum required length, and it does not address many of the necessary GA criteria. If you have any questions, please let me know.--Godot13 (talk) 06:49, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
One of Adam Cuerden’s several quality restorations during round 1
That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Assassination of Ali you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of FunkMonk -- FunkMonk (talk) 19:42, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Michael Chopra you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MPJ-DK -- MPJ-DK (talk) 23:20, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Royroydeb, when you put nominations on hold on the article's talk page, the only change you should make to the GA nominee template is to change the status parameter from "onreview" to "onhold". The changes you actually did with this nomination—removing the original timestamp and nominator and adding yourself and a new time—broke the entry on the GAN page, so it showed up as an error in the daily GAN report.
I have fixed the GA nominee template so it contains the original nomination time and nominator, so when the next report is run in about 24 hours, the error will have cleared. You may want to review the GA instructions for how to put an article on hold so you'll do it correctly next time. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:20, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hi RRD, I hope you are well. Just checking regarding the GA nomination at Balfour Declaration. Are you planning to come back there? Your help has been great so far. Oncenawhile (talk) 11:38, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure why you're not responding to the review, but I'll have to fail the article soon if I don't get a reply. FunkMonk (talk) 21:32, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. Sainsf took out Round 1 with an amazing score of 765. In second place, MPJ-DK earned an astounding 742 points, and in third place, FunkMonk received 610 points.
In Round 1, 206 reviews were completed, more than any other year! At the beginning of March, there were 595 outstanding nominations in the GAN queue; by the end of Round 1, there were 490. We continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 2 so we can lower the backlog as much as possible.
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First of all the nomination should follow the rules and regulations of a normal DYK. In the comment section while creating the DYK template you have to mention the date along with appropriate reason. Nomination should be done six to seven days earlier. Also the entry of the nomination should be on the day on which the article was created/expanded and not on the special occasion area. RRD13 দেবজ্যোতি (talk) 11:59, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Ivo Pinto, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Full back. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
I'm pleased to inform you that the community discussion regarding your ban appeal [1] has reached a consensus that your editing restrictions against creating BLP articles should be lifted. Accordingly, those restrictions no longer apply, effective immediately. Please do, of course, be mindful of referencing requirements as you start to create these articles again. SeraphimbladeTalk to me19:07, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
I am afraid you may not be aware of this review as you were not notified about it. Please take a look at the review comments. Thanks, Sainsf <^>Feel at home03:54, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
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On 17 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rúben Fernandes, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that despite indicating willingness to renew his contract with a Portuguese club, Portuguese footballer Rúben Fernandes signed with a newly promoted Belgian one instead? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rúben Fernandes. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rúben Fernandes), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Royroydeb, it has been a week without any reply from you. We need to hear from you soon if you wish to continue pursuing this nomination. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:08, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
A year ago ...
sports people
... you were recipient no. 1197 of Precious, a prize of QAI!
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